Prescription for better medicine - Dr Richard S. Klein, M.D.

Dr. Richard Klein wants doctors and patients to get along better.
He wants patients to be more pro-active.
He wants doctors to be better listeners, and observers, as well.
It's all about the human condition; and we're all human, he says.
Pedestals are meant for vases and busts, not doctors.

What every exam room could use is a chair for the doctor to sit and listen to a patient. He learned that from a doctor while studying in Italy. Klein says he has lived and worked by that advice in his own practice in Yorktown Heights for 30-plus years.

He has learned a lot from his patients and his world travels that have brought him from the sanctuary of Pope John Paul II to the nerve-rattling environs of the Arab-Israeli wars.

Looking to impart his lifetime of knowledge to patients and doctors alike, Klein has written a book titled, "From Anecdote to Antidote." In it he serves doses of common sense with stories of patients who have ranged from the famous to hookers in the Broadway theater district.

Not all of the anecdotes have happy endings, but such is life and the human condition.

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Congratulations Richard!